A hilarious/annoying article about the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

I just found this hilarious / annoying article about the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert from 1992 from the "Chicago Reader".

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/freddies-dead-thats-all-they-said-a-debacle-on-mtv/Content?oid=879686

Some very "interesting" bits from the article...


[QUOTE]The Freddie Mercury concert would have been one of the most unintentionally hilarious undertakings in the history of the universe if it wasn't for the seriousness of some of the underlying subjects. Mercury, the embarrassing lead singer of the largely bad and largely forgotten (in America at least) Queen, died last November of complications resulting from AIDS. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]The striking thing to me was that the concert was barely about AIDS at all, and it was most definitely not about being gay. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]... "Under Pressure," the 1980 hit by Bowie and Queen[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] the artistically barren Bowie, at heart a calculating publicity hound, [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] they looked like the main event at the Star Wars cantina.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]the rest of the concert largely consisted of tired, has-been rock stars fronting Queen and tired, soon-to-be-has-been rock stars fronting Queen[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Mercury managed to overcome his physical limitations--his tiny stature, buck teeth unattractive even by rock 'n' roll standards, a Terry-Thomas lisp--and make himself a genuine star even as 70s proto-metal kids thrilled to guitarist Brian May's limited but forceful power riffing.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]"Bohemian Rhapsody," which was apparently created by sticking Tiny Tim, Verdi, and a multitrack recording console into a Cuisinart and hitting puree, is of course a marvelous parody of a rock 'n' roll epic. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] "We Will Rock You" has a fascistic charm[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] Today listening to these records is a painful assignment. (Why doesn't Congress put warning labels on albums like News of the World? They could read, "Warning: Brain Advisory.") [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]The next time you happen to throw on the live version of "We Will Rock You" (the one on side four of Live Killers), listen carefully to the opening bars of the song. After the crowd sings "We will / We will rock you" for the fifth time, Freddie audibly shouts the words "Spinal tap." [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Queen had been thankfully overlooked; [/QUOTE]

LOL, why did they hire a guy who obviously hates Queen to write about Queen and Mercury?

A Terry Thomas lisp?

He was clearly saving that to use somewhere, but Freddie didn't have a lisp.

The fascist thing again??? Some of these writers never should have been employed. Anywhere. They were not serious people.

His attempt at sarcasm has all the potency of old porridge. Calling him a wanker would imply he has a functional member. Stupid uninformed hack.

There's quite a few articles out there about this writer and how annoying and apparently hypocritical he is. His name is Bill Wyman, but not that Bill Wyman.

Btw, I hate being PC, I wish it would go away. But, let us also remember it used to be cool for professional critics to make fun of a gay singer’s non existent lisp. Nowadays the only place to see those kinds of jokes are whiny Star Wars reviews on YouTube. And that’s exactly where they belong.

[QUOTE] [b]Theaterpup wrote:[/b]

Btw, I hate being PC, I wish it would go away. But, let us also remember it used to be cool for professional critics to make fun of a gay singer’s non existent lisp. Nowadays the only place to see those kinds of jokes are whiny Star Wars reviews on YouTube. And that’s exactly where they belong. [/QUOTE]

I never even knew this was a thing.

That is harsh, and bitter. Ouch.

What a tit.

Terry Thomas didn't have a lisp either.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J9its_Ngkw

"Nowadays the only place to see those kinds of jokes are whiny Star Wars reviews on YouTube"

Ahhh I'm fucking glad every time I see someone refer to this phenomenon.

Always boggles my mind that these neckbeardy milktits abominations somehow think they've cracked the code on movies and can shit on the new ones, but still think those prequels were alright.

Ungrateful slobs.

https://rockcritics.com/2018/11/09/rock-critic-bill-wyman-in-conversation-with-chris-buck/

And.. at #220: https://www.vulture.com/2018/05/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-artists-ranked-from-best-to-worst.html

The man is nuts :)

2nd worst... of all. Poor Bon Jobi.

Political views aside, let's be honest, the tribute show had very little to offer artistically...apart from George Michael